Hot take: Noether's Theorem is more useful than any of the physics Newton discovered.

Emmy Noether to a large extent created the modern framework of how to think about conservation and symmetry in physical law.
She influenced the modern character of physical law more than Newton, and arguably more than LaPlace.
Noether's theorem generalized to pretty much every field of physics, its variational calculus providing a solid foundation for thinking about things.

She completed Lagrangian mechanics and set the foundation for how everyone afterwards would think of physical law.
Other mathematicians and physicists at the time, even with contemporaries like Einstein's general relativity, didn't provide as fundamental a change in how to view physical laws themselves.
Emmy Noether provided the perspective that all of 20th century physics eventually thought in.
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